[Gllug] Red hat 8 subscription

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:11:36AM +0100, Jim Bailey wrote:
> > 
> > Gentoo is fine for a home desktop, but it's not practical when you have 
> > more than about 3 servers to maintain.  I have 170.
> 
> FUD prove it and I will make a public apology.

It's not FUD, Jim.  Gentoo is very flexible for a workstation set-up but
I don't trust it the way I trust Debian, whose stable and testing
versions are kept reliable by the mutual hatred and suspicion of
hundreds of volunteer developers and package maintainers all yelling
that change X would break their package so don't you even think about
it.  I don't trust it the way I would trust Red Hat, which has a rather
larger development team than Gentoo and a huge presence in computer
systems worldwide, the latter factor forcing them to show some
responsibility in managing their versions and upgrades.

Gentoo's own site makes fun of the conservatism of other distributions,
which just underlines the fact that it is, so far, developed by and for
hobbyists.  I regularly have to roll out changes across over a dozen
different locations across England and Wales and I won't even consider
Gentoo until they stop sneering, stop harping about the stupid "cutting
edge" and grow up.  Which I expect they will, eventually.

-- 
Bruce


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